we choose what we'd be forced to do anyway. |
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Do you choice the path of your own life or were you forced down that path? If you did have a choice in your path then what happen when those choices you made created forces? When you made your choice did you force others to choose as well or did others force you to choose? How much choice do we have and did I just force you to read my thoughts? |
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we choose what we'd be forced to do anyway. |
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I'm going back to bed, but I'll try to get another example and that is basically when I made the topic you replied to the topic. In someways it was because of my own action that you were forced to reply. Of course nobody had to reply to a topic, but from the force of the orginal event a choice was made. Then in a sense when you replied to my topic I was forced to responde with a reply. Even though I was the orginal poster I was still forced to make a choice because of the open dialog we are having now. I just got to thinking about how we live in the digital age and our choices become different then that in real life. I wonder what others also think. I'll try to check in on this topic when I can. |
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well, my opinion is that everything that one does is based on some kind of previous experience or lack thereof. further more, i think everything that happens that has nothing to do with personal choices (weather, stock market, etc) is also based on past happenings. our illusion of free will is based on our inability to see the whole picture, as it were. it's like a choose your own adventure book, where when you look back at the choices you made, you realize they were the only ones that existed. |
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That explains some things, but leaves huge gaps in other places. There is undeniably SOME degree of inborn tendency. Depression, for example, tends to run in family lines, and disrupts the way depressed people act. It isn't likely to be a learned behavior from their parents, since it's been known to skip two or three generations before appearing again. |
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. |
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It doesn't matter whether or not we're forced down our path, as long as we don't know the answer, it still remains a mysterious journey. As long as we're aware of causes and effects of things, we can weave around some forces, but there will always be those scientific laws that we can't transcend from. |
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I believe one does never have to follow a certain path. I'm following a path right now, altough I don't like it. I do have the power to leave it and take another. But I believe my current path is best for my future, so I will keep walking it, unless something can convince me to leave it. |
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Odds said it best: It hardly matters whether we're forced or we have free will, so long as we don't know the answer. |
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As long as i'm forced to have the illusion of choice (whether imposed upon me by a deceiving puppetmaster, or the truth itself) i shall not trouble myself to care... |
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” (or better yet: three...)
George Bernard Shaw
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. - Mikhail Bakunin
We certainly choose, it's just that our choices are a result of forces. |
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Super profundo on the early eve of your day
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